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Final Report from the Before-And-After Study of the Tide Light Rail Project Final Report from the Before-and-After Study of the Tide Light Rail Project Hampton Roads Transit July 1, 2015 The Tide Light Rail Project Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 3 2.0 Physical Scope of the Project ............................................................................................................ 5 Actual Outcome ........................................................................................................................................ 5 Accuracy of Predictions ........................................................................................................................... 10 3.0 Capital Costs of the Project ............................................................................................................. 13 Actual Outcomes ..................................................................................................................................... 13 Accuracy of Predictions ........................................................................................................................... 14 Conclusions ............................................................................................................................................. 19 Lessons Learned ...................................................................................................................................... 20 4.0 Transit Service Levels ...................................................................................................................... 20 Actual Outcomes ..................................................................................................................................... 20 Conclusions ............................................................................................................................................. 28 5.0 Operations and Maintenance Costs ................................................................................................ 28 Actual Outcomes ..................................................................................................................................... 28 Accuracy of Predictions ........................................................................................................................... 28 Lessons Learned ...................................................................................................................................... 30 6.0 Ridership ......................................................................................................................................... 30 Lessons Learned ...................................................................................................................................... 35 7.0 Farebox Revenues ........................................................................................................................... 35 8.0 LRT’s Role in Station Area Development ........................................................................................ 37 Purpose of the Analysis ........................................................................................................................... 37 Actual Station Area Development .......................................................................................................... 37 Station Area Development Attributable to LRT ...................................................................................... 37 Planned Developments That Have Not Been Constructed ..................................................................... 38 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................... 38 9.0 Parking ............................................................................................................................................ 38 Purpose of the Analysis ........................................................................................................................... 38 Lessons Learned ...................................................................................................................................... 41 10.0 Traffic .............................................................................................................................................. 41 Purpose of the Analysis ........................................................................................................................... 41 Actual Outcomes ..................................................................................................................................... 41 11.0 Summary ......................................................................................................................................... 43 i | Final Report from the Before-and-After Study of the Tide Light Rail Project The Tide Light Rail Project List of Appendices Appendix A: Physical Scope Appendix B: Capital Costs Appendix C: Service Levels Appendix D: Operations & Maintenance Appendix E: Ridership Appendix F: Land Use & Development Appendix G: Parking Appendix H: Traffic ii |Final Report from the Before-and-After Study of the Tide Light Rail Project The Tide Light Rail Project 1.0 Introduction The Tide Light Rail project is a 7.3-mile Light Rail Transit (LRT) line connecting the Eastern Virginia Medical Center (EVMC) complex east through downtown Norfolk to Newtown Road at the Norfolk-Virginia Beach border. The project was developed and built, and is now operated, by Hampton Roads Transit (HRT). It is the first light rail line in the Hampton Roads area. Early History of Norfolk Tide Tidewater Regional Transit (TRT), one of the two predecessor agencies of Hampton Roads Transit (HRT), completed several system planning studies, a Major Investment Study and a Draft, Supplemental Draft and Final Environmental Impact Statements of a major transit improvement for the Hampton Roads area. Previous studies included: Systems Planning Studies • Study of the Cost Effectiveness of Restoring Passenger Rail Service, May 1986 • Rail Systems Analysis and Fixed Guideway Service Plan, Sept 1991 Major Investment Study • Norfolk-Virginia Beach Corridor Major Investment Study, 1997 Environmental Impact Statements • Norfolk-Virginia Beach Light Rail Transit System East/West Corridor Project, Draft Environmental impact Study, 1999 • Norfolk-Virginia Beach Light Rail Transit System East/West Corridor Project Final Environmental Impact Statement, March, 2000 • Norfolk Light Rail Transit Project, Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement, January 2003 • Norfolk Light Rail Transit Project Final environmental Impact Statement, October 2005 The Major Investment Study utilized and built upon results from past planning efforts in evaluating the feasibility of implementing various transit alternatives and documented the selection of a Locally Preferred Alternative of an 18-mile light rail transit system running between downtown Norfolk and the Virginia Beach oceanfront. The Final Environmental Impact Statement for the 18 mile project was issued in March, 2000. The modification of the Norfolk-Virginia Beach alignment was necessitated by a decision of the Virginia Beach City Council to withdraw from the bi-city agreement concerning the proposed LRT project. This decision was made as a result of a November 2, 1999 city-wide non-binding referendum in which the outcome of the election indicated an unwillingness of the citizens of Virginia Beach to permit the development of light rail in their city. In February, 2000 the City Council of Norfolk adopts a resolution to move forward with the development of light rail transit entirely within the boundaries of the city. The preparation of the Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement is initiated. Final Report from the Before-and-After Study of the Tide Light Rail Project | 3 The Tide Light Rail Project Key milestone dates in project development were: Milestone Dates in Project Development Milestone Date Entry into Preliminary Engineering November 4, 2002 Entry into Final Design September 2006 Full Funding Grant Agreement (FFGA) October 2007 Revenue service August 29, 2011 Before-and-After Studies HRT received partial funding for the project through a Full Funding Grant Agreement (FFGA) with the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). Federal transit law requires any transit agency that receives project funding through an FFGA to complete a Before-and-After Study for the project. These studies have two purposes: first to document the actual outcomes of each project and second to evaluate the accuracy of the predicted outcomes prepared by the transit agency during the planning and development of the project. The studies must consider five outcomes of the project: physical scope, capital cost, impacts on transit services, consequences for transit-system operating and maintenance (O&M) costs, and the resulting ridership response. HRT has chosen to add four other topics to the actual outcomes considered in this study: farebox revenues, land use and development, parking, and traffic. To understand the actual outcomes on the physical scope and capital costs of the project, the study examines the as-built scope of the project and near-final capital costs soon after the opening of the project. To understand the impacts on transit service, O&M costs, and ridership, the analysis
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